Cookin' with gas...

It's a New Year, that began with a party and fireworks, and we have high hopes that 2012 will provide us with lots of change (in a good way, of course).

And here at Dolores Delargo Towers, we begin the year with our first Tacky Music Monday!

Yesterday would have been the 112th birthday of the magnificent Xavier Cugat, so what better way to start but as we mean to go on - with a triple bill of his wonderfully uplifting music?

Here he is featuring the effervescent Lina Ronay:

Xavier Cugat in Bathing Beauty (Escuela de Sirenas)

Here with our "patron saint" Carmen Miranda:

Xavier Cugat and Carmen Miranda - Cooking With Gas

And to finish, here he provides the music for his wife #4, Miss Abbe Lane:

Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane - Malagueña Salerosa / Latin Twist

Fantabulosa!

Xavier Cugat biography on AllMusic